OG Gains the DOTA 2 Throne at Manila Major


BENGALURU: DOTA (Defense of the Ancient) is one of the most addictive and known games in the globe with 2.4 million concurrent players and still counting. Dota is free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) developed by Valve Corporation where two five player teams compete with each other to destroy the ‘Ancient’ building located within the opposing stronghold. Each player controls one of 111 playable ‘Hero’ characters that feature unique powers and gameplay style. During a match, the player collects gold, items, and experience points for their Hero.

As a Knight, as an Orc, as a Mage while reckoning kills, deaths and assists to destroy each other’s Ancients is not what DOTA is, proved Team OG after winning the Grand Finals of the Manila Major 2016—a third event of Valve’s Dota Major Championships. The event held in the mall of Asia Arena, Manila, Philippines witnessed screams and silence from supporters around the globe, who made up the whole environment. Total 16 teams—NAVI, OG, EG, Complexity, Wings Gaming, VGR, Team Liquid, Team Secret and others competed in the event. The price pool of the tournament was $3,000,000 USD which was split among the teams in accordance to their winning positions.

Having won the Frankfurt Major back in November 2015, Team OG was in high spirits entering the Manila event. Let’s ride and take a look at the journey of Team OG at the main event of Manila Major held in June 2016.

OG vs NAVI: In Round 1 of the main event OG battled against NAVI. The match commenced with a double kill by Miracle’s Magnus within 5 minutes into the game, drawing first blood of Dendi’s Tinker and killing Sonneiko’s Phoenix. As for the second match OG Miracle’s Invoker drew first blood by killing General’s Mirana, completely wiping one of the legendry team NAVI from the event.

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